Alexander Pushkin

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San Pietroburgo

Alexandrinsky Theatre

San Pietroburgo

Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre — Passionate theatergoer; frequently attended opera and ballet at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre on Theatre Square (site of today’s Conservatory).

San Pietroburgo

Bronze Horseman — Wrote the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman (1833), the defining literary work about Falconet’s monument and the Petersburg flood myth.

Tbilisi

Chreli Abano — Pushkin’s 1829 experience at the bath informed his description of Tiflis bathing in Journey to Arzrum.

Kazan

Former Kazan Cloth Manufactory Building — Pushkin examined the old factory buildings in 1833 while researching the social background of the Kazan uprising.

Kislovodsk

Kislovodsk Fortress Museum — Pushkin stayed in the Kislovodsk fortress during his visit to the Caucasian waters in 1820.

Kislovodsk

Lermontov Platform and the Government Restaurant Site — Pushkin stayed in the government restaurant and hotel that formerly occupied this site.

Vilnius

Markučiai Manor — His posthumous family legacy formed the basis of the literary museum established at the estate.

San Pietroburgo

Pushkin House

Mosca

Pushkin Memorial Apartment on Arbat — He began married life here with Natalia Goncharova in 1831.

Mosca

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Kazan

Pushkin Street

Mosca

Pushkinskaya Square and the Passion Monastery Site — His monument was moved across Tverskaya in 1950 and installed on the former monastery site.

Kislovodsk

Rebrov House — Pushkin was among the prominent visitors who stayed at Rebrov’s Kislovodsk estate.

Kazan

Sharnaya Hill (Third Hill) — He inspected Sharnaya Hill in 1833 while gathering material used in his History of Pugachev.

Kazan

Site of the Gorlov Tavern — He recorded Vasily Babin’s account of the 1774 fighting during a meeting in the Gorlov Tavern.

Kazan

Sukonnaya Sloboda (Cloth Settlement) — He interviewed a former cloth worker here and used the resulting notes in his account of the siege.

San Pietroburgo

Summer Garden — Daily haunt while living nearby; wrote to his wife that the Summer Garden was his ‘ogorod’ — morning walks in a dressing gown, afternoon naps and writing there (esp. summer 1834).

Kazan

Troitskaya Mill Camp Site — He visited the former camp site in 1833 while preparing his historical account of the rebellion.

San Pietroburgo

Winter Palace — As kamer-junker (from 1834) was obliged to attend court ceremonies and balls at the Winter Palace; documented friction with court service.